The Bestselling Books of Summer 2017 — The BookBub Blog

As summer comes to a close, itâs time to look back at the hottest reads of the season. Featuring books that occupied the top three spots of the New York TimesCombined Print and Ebook Bestseller List from the the end of May through mid August, these reads include some of the bestselling books of 2017. Publishersâ descriptions included below.

A novel of suspense, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York TimesÂ bestselling author of The Obsessionâ¦

The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over 30,000 acres and home to four generations, itâs kept running by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodineâs aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was born. She never returned, and the Longbows donât talk about her much. The younger ones, who never met her, quietly presume sheâs dead. But she isnât. She is not far away, part of a new family, one she never chose â and her mind has been shatteredâ¦

When a bartender leaves the resort late one night, and Bo and Cal discover her battered body in the snow, itâs the first sign that danger lurks in the mountains that surround them. The police suspect Cal, but Bo finds herself trusting him â and turning to him as another woman is murdered and the Longbows are stunned by Aliceâs sudden reappearance. The twisted story she has to tell about the past â and the threat that follows in her wake â will test the bonds of this strong family, and thrust Bodine into a darkness she could never have imagined.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely 15-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her motherâs sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from â a place to which she vowed sheâd never return.

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.

Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author ofÂ Jurassic Park,Â returns to the world of paleontology in this recently discovered novel â a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate Americaâs western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.

Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win a bet against his arch-rival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But when the paranoid and secretive Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice. William is forced to join forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. With this extraordinary treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and Williamâs newfound resilience will be tested in his struggle to protect his cache, which pits him against some of the Westâs most notorious characters.

A page-turner that draws on both meticulously researched history and an exuberant imagination, Dragon Teeth is based on the rivalry between real-life paleontologists Cope and Marsh; in William Johnson readers will find an inspiring hero only Michael Crichton could have imagined. Perfectly paced and brilliantly plotted, this enormously winning adventure is destined to become another Crichton classic.

A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton Universityâs Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for 25 million dollars.

Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.

Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writerâs block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cableâs circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets.

But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and thereâs trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.

Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him, and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold.

Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do to focus on his two beautiful kids, and his flock came in a distant third. Now, as he too is thinking about a fresh start, he walks through his sanctuary and finds Shay sitting in a pew.

The pair strike up a friendship â Drew helps Shay get back on her feet, and she reignites his sense of purpose â that, over time, turns into something deeper, something soulful, spiritual, and possibly romantic. Even Drewâs two children are taken with this woman who has brought light back into their lives. Perhaps most important, Shay learns to trust again as she, in turn, proves herself trustworthy to her adopted community.

But Cadenâs return to town and a disastrous secret threaten to undo the life Shay has tried so hard to rebuild. It will take the utmost courage and faith if she and Drew hope to find healing and open their hearts to a brighter future.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles â the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series â continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives.

Two separate homicides, at different locations, with unrelated victims, have more in common than just being investigated by Boston PD detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles. In both cases, the bodies bear startling wounds â yet the actual cause of death is unknown. Itâs a doubly challenging case for the cop and the coroner to be taking on, at a fraught time for both of them. As Jane struggles to save her mother from the crumbling marriage that threatens to bury her, Maura grapples with the imminent death of her own mother â infamous serial killer Amalthea Lank.

While Jane tends to her mother, thereâs nothing Maura can do for Amalthea, except endure one final battle of wills with the woman whose shadow has haunted her all her life. Though succumbing to cancer, Amalthea hasnât lost her taste for manipulating her estranged daughter â this time by dangling a cryptic clue about the two bizarre murders Maura and Jane are desperately trying to solve.

But whatever the dying convict knows is only a piece of the puzzle. Soon the investigation leads to a secretive young woman who survived a shocking abuse scandal, an independent horror film that may be rooted in reality, and a slew of martyred saints who died cruel and unusual deaths. And just when Rizzoli and Isles think theyâve cornered a devilish predator, the long-buried past rears its head â and threatens to engulf more innocent lives, including their own.

Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about 200 miles northeast of Samoa. It had a mountain, beaches, a rain forest, and a volcano. And now itâs gone. Poof! Vanished without a trace.

Brilliant and boyishly charming Emerson Knight likes nothing better than solving an unsolvable, improbable mystery. And finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. When clues lead to a dark and sinister secret that is being guarded by the National Park Service, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help. Since a crack team isnât available, he enlists Riley Moon and his cousin Vernon. Riley Moon has a Harvard business degree and can shoot the eyes out of a grasshopper at 50 feet, but she canât figure out how to escape the vortex of Emerson Knightâs odd life. Vernon has been Emersonâs loyal and enthusiastic partner in crime since childhood. He now lives in an RV behind Emersonâs house.

Together, this ragtag, mismatched trio will embark on a worldwide investigation that will expose a conspiracy 100 years in the making.

The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author â a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense.

Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behindâ¦

Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinnâs happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father â Pikevilleâs notorious defense attorney â devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.

Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her fatherâs footsteps to become a lawyer herself â the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again â and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized â Charlie is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but itâs a caseÂ that unleashesÂ the terrible memories sheâs spent so long trying to suppress. Because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly 30 years ago wonât stay buried foreverâ¦

Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.

Introducing Renee Ballard, a fierce young detective fighting to prove herself on the LAPDâs toughest beat, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

Renee Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood â also known as the Late Show â beginning many investigations but finishing none, as each morning she turns everything over to the day shift. A once up-and-coming detective, sheâs been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor.

But one night she catches two assignments she doesnât want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her partnerâs wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the investigations entwine, they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she wonât give up her job, no matter what the department throws at her.

We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the flow of justice. But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe?

Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. It is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption.

But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. And not just crooked judges in Florida. All judges, from all states, and throughout United States history. And now he wants to put a stop to it. His only client is a person who knows the truth and wants to blow the whistle and collect millions under Florida law. When the case is assigned to Lacy, she immediately suspects that this one could be dangerous. Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else.

A woman checks into a hotel room and entertains a man who is not her husband. A shooter blows away the lover and wounds the millionairess, leaving her for dead. Is it the perfect case for the Womenâs Murder Club â or just the most twisted?

Rogan faces his own challenges, too, as Nevadaâs magical rank has made her a desirable match for other Primes. Controlling his immense powers is childâs play next to controlling his conflicting emotions. And now he and Nevada are confronted by a new threat within her own family. Can they face this together? Or is their world about to go up in smoke?

A heart-stopping tale of suspense, Daniel Silvaâs runaway bestseller,Â The Black Widow, was one of 2016âs biggest novels. Now, inÂ House of Spies,Â Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge â determined to hunt down the worldâs most dangerous terrorist, a shadowy ISIS mastermind known only as Saladin.

Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through Londonâs glittering West End.Â The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread.

The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British fashion model, Olivia, pretends not to know that the true source of Martelâs enormous wealth is drugs. And Martel, likewise, turns a blind eye to the fact he is doing business with a man whose objective is the very destruction of the West. Together, under Gabrielâs skilled hand, they will become an unlikely pair of heroes in the global war on terror.

Written in seductive and elegant prose, the story moves swiftly from the glamour of Saint-Tropez to the grit of Casablanca and, finally, to an electrifying climax that will leave readers breathless long after they turn the final page.

ButÂ House of SpiesÂ is more than just riveting entertainment; it is a dazzling tale of avarice and redemption, set against the backdrop of the great conflict of our times. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva is âquite simply the bestâ (Kansas City Star).

Allison Trent doesnât look like a hacker. In fact, when sheâs not in college working on her degree, she models on the side. But behind her gorgeous face is a brilliant mind for computers and her real love is writing â and hacking â code. Her dream is to write a new security program that could revolutionize the tech industry.

Hotshot FBI agent Liam Scott has a problem: a leak deep within his own department. He needs the skills of a top-notch hacker to work on a highly sensitive project: to secretly break into the FBI servers and find out who the traitor is. But he canât use one of his own. He finds the perfect candidate in Allison. Only, thereâs one problem â she wants nothing to do with his job and turns him down flat.

What Liam doesnât know is that Allison is hiding secrets that she doesnât want the FBI to uncover. But Liam will do nearly anything to persuade her to join his team, even break a few rules if thatâs what it takes. A temptation that could put his job â and both of their futures â on the lineâ¦

From New York Times bestselling author of the âtwisty-mysteryâ (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware â this time, set at sea.

In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christieâs works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Loâs stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for â and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Loâs desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrongâ¦

With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10Â â one that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.

Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal behavior. Literally â heâs a renowned, bestselling Ivy League expert on the subject. When a copy of his book turns up at a gruesome murder scene â along with a threatening message from the killer â it looks like someone has been taking notes.

Elizabeth Needham is the headstrong and brilliant NYPD Detective in charge of the case who recruits Dylan to help investigate another souvenir left at the scene â a playing card. Another murder, another card â and now Dylan suspects that the cards arenât a signature, theyâre a deadly hint â pointing directly toward the next victim.

As tabloid headlines about the killer known as âThe Dealerâ scream from newstands, New York City descends into panic. With the cops at a loss, itâs up to Dylan to hunt down a serial killer unlike any the city has ever seen. Only someone with Dylanâs expertise can hope to go inside the mind of a criminal and convince The Dealer to lay down his cards. But after thinking like a criminal â could Dylan become one?

A heart-pounding novel of suspense more shocking than any tabloid true crime story, Murder Games introduces the next unforgettable character from the imagination of James Patterson, the worldâs #1 bestselling author.

These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for â but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what.

People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important â so terrifying â that they will exterminate anyone in their way.

But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless â and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Identical twin sisters who couldnât look more alikeâ¦ or live more differently.

Harper Frost is laid-back, easygoing. She doesnât care what anyone thinks of her. She likes a beer and a shot and wouldnât be caught dead wearing anything fashionable. Sheâs inherited her fatherâs rundown house on Marthaâs Vineyard, but she canât hold down a job, and her latest romantic disaster has the entire island talking.

Two beautiful islands only 11 miles apart.

Tabitha Frost is dignified, refined. She prefers a fine wine and has inherited the impeccable taste of her mother, the iconic fashion designer Eleanor Roxie-Frost. Sheâs also inherited her motherâs questionable parenting skills â Tabithaâs teenage daughter, Ainsley, is in full rebellion mode â and a flailing fashion boutique on Nantucket in desperate need of a cash infusion.

One unforgettable summer that will change their lives forever.

After more than a decade apart, Harper and Tabitha switch islands â and lives â to save whatâs left of their splintered family. But the twins quickly discover that the secrets, lies, and gossip they thought theyâd outrun can travel between islands just as easily as they can. Will Harper and Tabitha be able to bury the hatchet and end their sibling rivalry once and for all? Before the last beach picnic of the season, there will be enough old resentments, new loves, and cases of mistaken identity to make this the most talked-about summer that Marthaâs Vineyard and Nantucket have experienced in ages.

In the latest electrifying adventure in Tom Clancyâs #1Â New York TimesÂ bestselling series, Jack Ryan, Jr., learns that sometimes the deadliest secret may be standing right next to you.

Former US Senator Weston Rhodes is a defense contractor with an urgent problem. His company needs someone to look over the books of Dalfan Technologies, a Singapore company â quickly. He turns to his old friend Gerry Hendley for help. Hendley Associates is one of the best financial analysis firms in the country and the cover for The Campus, a top-secret American intelligence agency. Rhodes asks for two specific analysts, Jack Ryan Jr., and Paul Brown, a mild-mannered forensic accountant.

Both Ryan and Brown initially resist, for different reasons. On the long flight over, Ryan worries heâs being sidelined from the next Campus operation in Americaâs war on terror. Brown â who was never very good with people â only worries about the numbers, and finding a good cup of tea.

Brown has no idea Jack works for The Campus, but the awkward accountant is hiding secrets of his own. Rhodes has tasked him with uploading a cyberwarfare program into the highly secure Dalfan Technologies mainframe on behalf of the CIA.

On the verge of mission success, Brown discovers a game within the game, and the people who now want to kill him are as deadly as the cyclone bearing down on the island nation. Together Ryan and Brown race to escape both the murderous storm and a team of trained assassins in order to prevent a global catastrophe, even at the cost of their own lives.

NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the worldâs most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankindâs last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Timesâbestselling grand master of adventure.

When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others donât â that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions.

From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disasterâ¦ but they may be caught in a race that no one can win.

Christine Feehan returns to her scorching-hot series starring a Chicago crime family that has built its empire in the shadowsâ¦

Billionaire playboy Ricco Ferraro knows no other life. Being a shadow rider is in his blood â but so is a haunting desperation stemming from the secrets of his dark past. His recklessness puts not only his life at risk, but also the future of his entire family. To save them all, he must find a woman who can meet his every desire with a heat all her ownâ¦

Just when Ricco has given up hope, he meets her â a mysterious woman whose shadow connects with his. Sheâs someone looking for a safe haven from the danger that has stalked her over the last several months. In Riccoâs embrace, she finds one. But the darkness in which they so often find sanctuary can also consume themâ¦

The Handmaidâs Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishmentâs calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaidâs Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.

Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but refuses to make a commitment until he has solved the mystery of his familyâs past. A new threat has surfaced, and he needs to eliminate it.

Melanie loves Jonah but has yet to surrender completely to his needs. Still, she wants a promise that he canât yet make. While the ghosts of her past still hover around her, she joins him on his quest for answers. Together, they vow to find the truth.

Get ready for the ultimate Jack Reacher experience: a thrilling new novella and 11 previously published stories, together for the first time in one pulse-pounding collection from Lee Child.

No Middle Name begins with âToo Much Time,â a brand-new work of short fiction that finds Reacher in a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime. âSmall Warsâ takes readers back to 1989, when Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the brutal murder of a young officer found along an isolated forest road in Georgia â and whose killer may be hiding in plain sight. In âNot a Drill,â Reacher tries to take some downtime, but a pleasant hike in Maine turns into a walk on the wild side â and perhaps something far more sinister. âHigh Heatâ time-hops to 1977, when Reacher is a teenager in sweltering New York City during a sudden blackout that awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps. Okinawa is the setting of âSecond Son,â which reveals the pivotal moment when young Reacherâs sharp âlizard brainâ becomes just as important as his muscle. In âDeep Down,â Reacher tracks down a spy by matching wits with four formidable females â three of whom are clean, but the fourth may prove fatal. Rounding out the collection are âGuy Walks into a Bar,â âJames Penneyâs New Identity,â âEveryone Talks,â âThe Picture of the Lonely Diner,â âMaybe They Have a Tradition,â and âNo Room at the Motel.â

No suitcase. No destination. No middle name. No matter how far Reacher travels off the beaten path, trouble always finds him. Feel bad for trouble.

Lindsay Boxer is learning to love again. After the picture-perfect world she shared with her husband, Joe, and their beautiful young daughter shattered under the weight of Joeâs double life, Lindsay is determined to put the pieces back together. But before she can welcome Joe back with open arms, their beloved hometown of San Francisco faces a threat unlike any the city â or the country â has ever seen.

When the danger hits even closer to home, Lindsay and Joe find a common cause and spring into action, with quick results. But what at first seems like an open-and-shut case quickly turns into anything but, when the suspect threatens everything that Lindsay has worked a lifetime to build. As Lindsayâs investigation is scrutinized and undermined by a criminal as brilliant as any high-powered defense lawyer, and her motives are called into question by everyone she thought had her back, not even the truth may be enough to save her.

In a desperate fight for her career â and her life â Lindsay must connect the dots of a deadly conspiracy before a fiendish enemy puts her on trial-and walks free with blood on his hands.

Filled with the trademark suspense and emotion that have made James Patterson the worldâs #1 bestselling writer, 16th Seduction is the Womenâs Murder Clubâs toughest case yet â and an exhilarating thrill ride from start to finish.

#1Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers nonstop suspense and supercharged sexual tension in a thriller about tainted heroism and vengeance without mercy.Â

Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he was photographed leading a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews, but then suddenly dropped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now Kerra is willing to use any means necessary to get an exclusive with the Major â even if she has to secure an introduction from his estranged son, former ATF agent John Trapper.

Still seething over his break with both the ATF and his father, Trapper wants no association with the bombing or the Major. Yet Kerraâs hints that thereâs more to the story rouse Trapperâs interest despite himself. And when the interview goes catastrophically awry â with unknown assailants targeting not only the Major, but also Kerra â Trapper realizes he needs her under wraps if heâs going to track down the gunmenâ¦ and finally discover who was responsible for the Dallas bombing.

Kerra is wary of a man so charming one moment and dangerous the next, and she knows Trapper is withholding evidence from his ATF investigation into the bombing. But having no one else to trust and enemies lurking closer than they know, Kerra and Trapper join forces to expose a sinuous network of lies and conspiracy â and uncover who would want a national hero dead.